Re: An old newbie

Mike Barlow wrote: > Curro wrote in message ... > > >I present myself, I am an old, also from born in 1970, > > umm... "Old"? Think again kid<g> 1970 would make you only 20 years old. Yeah, he's just a kid, but I believe 2000 - 1970 = 30, Mike. -- ***************************************************** David A. Ewing 303-544-5454 Xilinx Boulder [email hidden] *****************************************************

Curro wrote in message ... >Hi all Gpl (and other lower simulators) fans, > >I present myself, I am an old, also from born in 1970, umm... "Old"? Think again kid<g> 1970 would make you only 20 years old. I won't say this for a fact but I'll say that "I believe" the average age driver with GPL on VROC is probably about 30-35. I'm almost the youngest driver in my online GPL racing league at 33. I heard that the oldest GPL driver is like 76(?). But then again looking at most, if not all, Monza events, 33 might be over the hill and half way down the other side ;-) Mike

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> > Curro wrote in message ... > >Hi all Gpl (and other lower simulators) fans, > > > >I present myself, I am an old, also from born in 1970, > > umm... "Old"? Think again kid<g> 1970 would make you only 20 years old.

Warning! Time-space anomalies occuring in r.a.s.... We've gone back to 1990! aaaaaaargggh! ;-p Phil

Hi all Gpl (and other lower simulators) fans, I present myself, I am an old, also from born in 1970, spanish driver, fan and sometimes event organizer of the now obsolete GP2. Don�t get me wrong, GP2 is a great game and the first one that could be called F1 Race Simulator, but I also think that it has been surpassed by GPL (but only by GPL) by far. As many others I tested GPL some time ago, liked it but found it too difficult for a GP2 keyboard driver with a poor P166. Time has passed, GP2 has developed in a great why thanks to many people as Steve Young, Paul Hoad and many others (GP2 and Track editors, for you only-gpl people). I have now a decent AMD K6III 400 + Banshee + TM wheel so I bought GPL from the cheap software section. What a great difference! GPL is inndeed great, but I will stop telling you this because it is nothing new. I downloaded patches and setups from the net, and recently I give Dave Noonan his well earned money for the Track converter. As I only have ICR2+Indy and Nascar1999 I "only" have 40 tracks to choose from, but I am looking for Nascar3 and NL only to convert the tracks. My race experience with GPL starts with a sub-2m lap at Mosport in a computer fair competition. That best lap of the day gave me a GPL T-shirt (that I keep as my first and oly racing trophy) and a place in the final race (I do not want to talk about that race, there I learnt that the blue flags really mean "you're pathetic!") Of course I have improved a lot since then, but as my AI cars also have improved, I was ashamed to say that my best positions have been 11th in the grid and 13th in the race. A slow guy like me does not have the right to speak here. Yesterday I deleted my player.sts file (please don't call it cheating) and downloaded some new oval setups (I am more setup-illiterate like Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder) and the results are now great. I am now 5th in the grid at Indy and was in the first row (second) at Milwaukee where only the accidents kept me out from my first win. In the old tracks I have also improved, 1:32 at Monza, but only 10:03 at Nurburgring in trafic (I don't have two much time/patience to get another halfhour to test it, but I will be sioon in the 9:30 world. As I said, I am close to my first win and I want to be prepared. I have some other doubts and I would like to be enlighted by you: - Are there any good (at least driveable) setups for the ovals? (Oops, I have just seen Her Highness Alison Hine X-files, I am downloading them now) - How I change my picture in the newspaper. this is really urgent! - How I paint my name in the car? I think it was already answered. My evolution has been Ferrari, Lotus, obviously back to Ferrari, Brabham and Eagle for my american oval experience. - How I get the Rendition tracks if I don't have the Rendition ICR2 version? Additionally, how do I graphically improve the other ICR2 tracks, I tried to follow Alison's notes but I just don't get it. What I am doing wrong? - How do I install Snetterton in my season? Yes, I am really stupid. - I tried to cheat the converter by getting Pocono and Sears Point from N1999 as if they were from N3. I of course failed. Do I really need N3 for it, right? - And finally, how do I get into VROC? I get into the chat but I can't enter any race. Any spanish speaking could lead me to the race? Will my single ISDN connection be enough fast? - We have only 4 1/2 completely new tracks, Dubai, Brands Hatch, Osterreichring, Snetterton (not for me) and semi-new Flatstead that I cannot see also. Do you think that there will be a GPL track editor as there is in GP2? We have two of the greatest tracks of all times, Indy and Nurburgring, but I miss some others like banked Monza, Le Mans and my hometown Toledo track, a 6km killer mix bewteen Monaco and Bathurst, something like this: http://www.diputoledo.es/Capital/ruta7.htm. Do you think that I will ever drive my Ferrari in that track in an online race? With GP3 maybe? - Will I ever stop asking? Thanks all for your patience and congratulations to Bruce Kennewell ("the man who shot Manfred von Richtoffen") for been 83 all these years :-) I hope to meet some of you in Sydney ("sidnee" here) in September!

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> > >Mike Barlow wrote: >> >> Curro wrote in message ... >> >Hi all Gpl (and other lower simulators) fans, >> > >> >I present myself, I am an old, also from born in 1970, >> >> umm... "Old"? Think again kid<g> 1970 would make you only 20 years

old. > >Warning! Time-space anomalies occuring in r.a.s.... We've gone back to >1990! aaaaaaargggh! ;-p > >Phil

"Mike Barlow" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:%e3J4.2321$[email hidden]... > Curro wrote in message ... > >Hi all Gpl (and other lower simulators) fans, > > > >I present myself, I am an old, also from born in 1970, > > umm... "Old"? Think again kid<g> 1970 would make you only 20 yearsold. Hey Mike, Still living in 1990? Hena

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:28:11 GMT, "Mike Barlow" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> > >Curro wrote in message ... >>Hi all Gpl (and other lower simulators) fans, >> >>I present myself, I am an old, also from born in 1970, > > umm... "Old"? Think again kid<g> 1970 would make you only 20 years old.

Errr, something not quite right with the arithmetic here. Isn't the guy actually 30!! _____________________________________________ Andy Cunningham Stockholm, Sweden Email: [email hidden] ICQ: 11355339

Welcome to the nineties Mike. ;-) and oh yeah, #33 is over the hill alright (private joke for my man Curro). ;-) Jan./ just leave math to the professionals. 'k? <g> =--- Mike Barlow <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:%e3J4.2321$[email hidden]... <snip>

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> umm... "Old"? Think again kid<g> 1970 would make you only 20 years old. > I won't say this for a fact but I'll say that "I believe" the average age > driver with GPL on VROC is probably about 30-35. I'm almost the youngest > driver in my online GPL racing league at 33. I heard that the oldest GPL > driver is like 76(?). But then again looking at most, if not all, Monza > events, 33 might be over the hill and half way down the other side ;-) > > Mike > >

Amador!! -What took you so long?? Drop me a mail (remove the "no-spam." stuff) and I'll point you in the true directions (what's left of the Gp2 League and Vegeserver newsgroups and some leagues that might interest you). Cheers, Jan-DKE./ -->now that's a blast from the past. =--- Curro <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Cx2J4.1108$[email hidden]... > Hi all Gpl (and other lower simulators) fans, > <snip>

Which is the F3? or the original alt.gpl? -- Oli BeoRocket Racing http://www.beorocket.co.yu/ Jan Verschueren <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Cu7J4.69918$[email hidden]... > Amador!! -What took you so long?? > > Drop me a mail (remove the "no-spam." stuff) and I'll point you in the true > directions (what's left of the Gp2 League and Vegeserver newsgroups and some > leagues that might interest you). > > Cheers, > > Jan-DKE./ -->now that's a blast from the past. > =--- > > Curro <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:Cx2J4.1108$[email hidden]... > > Hi all Gpl (and other lower simulators) fans, > > <snip> > >

Oh, oh... now you've done it! :-) I know racing's all about Wanting To Win, but I'm afraid I have a very old fashioned British point of view... it's not the winning, it's the taking part <g>. Some of my most enjoyable races on and offline have been back in the last few places (as if I have a choice to race at the front!) As long as you're enjoying it, who cares where you finish. However I think there's a very strong case for disabling the AI improves as you improve thing.... makes it hard to feel you're getting anywhere. Andrew McP

Yes I made, what we mathematical types call, a Boo-Boo!! OOPS<g>

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>On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:28:11 GMT, "Mike Barlow" >>>Hi all Gpl (and other lower simulators) fans, >>>I present myself, I am an old, also from born in 1970, >> umm... "Old"? Think again kid<g> 1970 would make you only 20 years

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>Errr, something not quite right with the arithmetic here. Isn't the >guy actually 30!! >_____________________________________________ >Andy Cunningham >Stockholm, Sweden >ICQ: 11355339

> Yes I made, what we mathematical types call, a Boo-Boo!! OOPS<g> Think we got us a Y2K problem here. <G> -- Chuck Kandler #70 K&S Racing http://www.fortunecity.com/silverstone/thepits/195 Competitor in the TopGear MGPRS2 league at: http://topgear.dhs.org/ Come on & join the fun! They'll call you names And spit in your face, But legends never die. --Gene Simmons

We've gone back to 1990! aaaaaaargggh! ;-p That means playing GPL with a 286...arggg! 1.1 fps...oh me god ;) Robert Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

> We've gone back to 1990! aaaaaaargggh! ;-p > That means playing GPL with a 286...arggg! 1.1 fps...oh me god ;) Well, you don't need a 286 to play GPL with 1 fps. I managed that on my PIII450 with ATI Rage LT Pro and OpenGL :) -- Olav K. Malmin remove spam when replying

LOL!

> Hi all Gpl (*and other lower simulators*) fans, LOL!

Over the hill and far away. My phone bill has been halved since he stopped posting on Vegeserver <G> Welcome back Curro Mark "Jan Verschueren" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Cu7J4.69917$[email hidden]...

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> Welcome to the nineties Mike. ;-) > > and oh yeah, #33 is over the hill alright (private joke for my man Curro). > ;-) > > Jan./ just leave math to the professionals. 'k? <g> > =--- > Mike Barlow <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:%e3J4.2321$[email hidden]... > <snip> > > umm... "Old"? Think again kid<g> 1970 would make you only 20 years old. > > I won't say this for a fact but I'll say that "I believe" the average

age > > driver with GPL on VROC is probably about 30-35. I'm almost theyoungest > > driver in my online GPL racing league at 33. I heard that the oldestGPL > > driver is like 76(?). But then again looking at most, if not all,Monza

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> > events, 33 might be over the hill and half way down the other side ;-) > > > > Mike > > > > > >

Andrew MacPherson <[email hidden]> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias [email hidden]... > > > Hi all Gpl (and other lower simulators) fans > > Oh, oh... now you've done it! :-) I correct myself: I have just downloaded the N.I.C.E. Demo and my non-existant knowledge of the german language has only allowed me to jump in the Citroen 2CV at 95 km/h. Clearly unrealistic, the car vibration should kill the passengers at that speed in MY real 2CV. Apart from that, GREAT.

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> > > I was ashamed to say that my best positions have been > > 11th in the grid and 13th in the race. > > I know racing's all about Wanting To Win, but I'm afraid I have a very old > fashioned British point of view... it's not the winning, it's the taking > part <g>. Some of my most enjoyable races on and offline have been back in > the last few places (as if I have a choice to race at the front!) As long > as you're enjoying it, who cares where you finish.

Of course my sponsors care! :-) (If I would have any, I would be fired faster than Jan Magnussen) > > However I think there's a very strong case for disabling the AI improves > as you improve thing.... makes it hard to feel you're getting anywhere. Atr least I don't use the AI tweaker... > > Andrew McP > >

Jan Verschueren <[email hidden]> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias Cu7J4.69918$[email hidden]... > Amador!! -What took you so long?? GP2 did :-) I have been involved in Kurt Baumann's GP2 league (www.gp3gl.com) until February but my motivation disappeared. Hopefully, GPL has revived my simracing life again. > > Drop me a mail (remove the "no-spam." stuff) and I'll point you in thetrue > directions (what's left of the Gp2 League and Vegeserver newsgroups andsome > leagues that might interest you). Thanks Jan, It is nice to see some veterans of Randy's league, was that 1997 really? It seems one millenium ago! > Cheers, > > Jan-DKE./ -->now that's a blast from the past. Citroen 2C V6 CTi was my machine then...

Mike Barlow <[email hidden]> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias %e3J4.2321$[email hidden]...

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> > > Curro wrote in message ... > >Hi all Gpl (and other lower simulators) fans, > > > >I present myself, I am an old, also from born in 1970, > > umm... "Old"? Think again kid<g> 1970 would make you only 20 years

old. I wish I could be that age again, in 1990 I was able to drink and run more and during more time, I was (even :-) ) more attractive to women and thought that man would be in Mars in the year 2000. On the other hand, I didn't have any money, in the TV they sometimes talked about something strange called "internet" and I was playing Papyrus Indy 500 in my 386 but I never completed the 200 laps. I also knew somebody who had an expensive AdLlib "sound card". Music in a PC, who was going to need it!

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> I won't say this for a fact but I'll say that "I believe" the average age > driver with GPL on VROC is probably about 30-35. I'm almost the youngest > driver in my online GPL racing league at 33. I heard that the oldest GPL > driver is like 76(?). But then again looking at most, if not all, Monza > events, 33 might be over the hill and half way down the other side ;-) > > Mike > >

Phil Flack wrote: > > Warning! Time-space anomalies occuring in r.a.s.... We've gone back to > 1990! aaaaaaargggh! ;-p hey, where'd my gut go?

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:39:46 GMT, "Curro" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Hi all Gpl (and other lower simulators) fans, > >- And finally, how do I get into VROC? I get into the chat but I can't enter >any race. Any spanish speaking could lead me to the race? Will my single >ISDN connection be enough fast? Hola! Mi habla muy bueno espanol... es co�a. Soy de Madrid y he corrido bastante en el VROC. Con RDSI te ira muy bien, yo tengo un 33.6 y va bien. Escribime por mail y seguimos. Saludos